After more rain overnight, the skies cleared, giving wall to wall sunshine. The F3 wind was from the SSW, swinging around Sale Fell again, and caused some head scratching for the OD when setting the morning course.
After lunch, the first pursuit of the week was held in winds freshening to F4-5. To spread the fleet out over the 40 minute start sequence, one of the beats was to mark 7 in the narrows near Scarness bay.
The first boat to start was a Tera Sport, with a clear line all to itself, and it was the only boat to be recalled out of all the starts!
All was fine until the main body of the fleet was running down through the narrows, the gusts enabled exciting planing conditions, with added jeopardy of some downdraughts causing various death rolls, Chinese gybes, and a few capsizes! One sailor had scheduled knee replacement surgery cancelled, so came sailing, only to be washed out of his boat!
Phil/Oliver Smith in a Mirror soon broke through to the front of the fleet, and maintaining better progress through the narrows enabled them to create an unassailable lead, winning the race by several minutes.
The second prize giving of the week followed racing.